when you're having fun.

christ on a bicycle, where is this month going? last time i checked, new york was mostly underwater and it was about two weeks ago. where the hell have i been?

a few activities that might account for a bit of this lost time:

1. recording.
at long long long long long last, we finally went into the studio to start work on the masterpiece that will be our EP. seven hours have never flown by faster, and never have i been more frustrated by my voice--seven hours, not a single usable vocal take. this is becuase i've been unbelievably sick for the last, oh, i don't know. four months or so. the instrument, she is a little weak. it's not nearly so bad as it has been, but it was just off enough that it makes me very sad.

however!

we go back in in a few more weeks to finish this puppy up, and hopefully i'll be in one piece at that point, and there will be much rejoicing. hopefully.

2. working like a crazy person
we're in the middle of a big transition period here at l'office, and as such we've all been running around like craaaazy people, trying to finish approximately twice the work we're accustomed to handling. it's weirdly satisfying, but extremely tiring.

3. singing at carnegie hall.
it was a work thing, and less exciting than it sounds. but hey--it's a great party anecdote, and a weird sort of bragging right. it's also probably why my voice was so shit last weekend--i was just getting over having lost my voice when the carnegie hall experience happened, and i had to push it a little too hard, thereby almost certainly setting myself back a day. or two. or six.

4. being sick. and stupid.
my death rattle is back, and i've finally come to terms with the fact that my chronic illness is very likely the result of my inability to do normal things like sleep or spend any time at home ever. so that's something to work on. at least i'm taking vitamins now.

5. finishing up my class.
i enjoyed my class, i really did. but oh my god am i glad it's over. back me up with this, fellow creatives--by the time you get home from work, the last thing you want to do is more creative stuff, right?

okay, maybe that's just me. but between work, freelance, school and the band, i find myself entirely devoid of creative impulse when i have a rare moment to myself. i'm not sure i even dream creatively anymore; the only ones i remember are alarmingly full of math. (scary!) getting this one thing off my plate will be, i think, a very, very good thing for me.

6. starting a new project. (which, actually, if you are a fan of my back catalogue, might be of some interest to you)
which i will tell you about if you are curious enough to email me about it, but that i'm probably not going to publicize for a little while yet, for many different reasons. mostly because i am...

7. dealing with a few issues in the old personal life.
don't ask. suffice it to say, despite having managed to dig my backbone out of cold storage, the whole thing is exhausting and i cannot wait until it's all wrapped up. because until it's all wrapped up, there's a lot of stuff that i can't say in this forum, and until it's all wrapped up i will remain, to a degree, on tenterhooks.

8. and other miscellaneous pursuits
going to the park, eating pancakes, reading lots and lots, researching the best Ultra Black mascara currently at market (suggestions?), daydreaming, counting the seconds until i can sleep again, running, being cranky, drinking bourbon, entering a spelling bee, nearly drowning in the nor'easter, losing earrings, expecting the worst but hoping for the best.